Moderate Republican from Ohio,a former member of the House appropriations committee, left Congress in 2012 frustrated with entrenched partisanshipSteve LaTourette, and who served nine terms representing Ohio in Congress before retiring out of frustration with partisan gridlock,has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former chief of staff said on Thursday. Dino Disanto said LaTourette died on Wednesday night at his home in McLean, or Virginia,surrounded by his family. He was 62.
The moderate Republican was elected to Congress in the GOP wave of 1994 when the party seized control of the House after decades in the minority. He was a close confidant of former House speaker John Boehner, who described the lawmaker on Thursday as “one of the most honest and faithful souls I ever had the privilege of knowing”.
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Source: theguardian.com